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Remember Elite Lords of Alliance? If your answer is “no”, I wouldn’t blame you. But it’s back again, this time under a new publisher (PLAYWITH), and known as Warlords Awakening. The MMO ARPG has had a long and storied run, despite virtually no exposure in the West. It’s an inexpensive ARPG to get into, but does it really do anything to make it stand out from the throng of other ARPGs? For every part of the game that I find to be interesting or fun, I find another two or three that are just dreadful or disappointing.

Text based gaming goes way back. The popular Oregon Trail game best known perhaps for its Apple IIe incarnation was in earlier formats a text based game. Later there were such titles as Colossal Cave Adventure, Dungeon, and perhaps one of the best known text games, Zork, which was featured heavily in the original novel that the movie Ready Player One was based on. Later in 1978, a game called Multi-User Dungeon was created on mainframe computers that would take up entire apartments to house today. In my own Jr High and High School years I discovered BBSes, and through them text based games such as Legend of the Red Dragon (LORD). Later MajorMUD and Telearena were the fixation, and then internet MUDs.